Plantdye Material

Plantcolors and Mordant for natural dyeing.
We are using all those materials ourself, so the quality is proofed.
If you are looking for something that you do not find here, please contact us.
There is much more in stock than in the shop to see.

Root of Madder (Krapp) is to use for a wide range of red colors.
Best to use with chalk and wheat bran. It make the water hard and the color more full.
Madder is good to mix with other plants in one dye.

Reseda luteola (Weld) is one of the very less plants for a light- and washproofed yellow.
It gives a very shiny, almost neon, yellow.
For all other shades of yellow you can mix it with a bit of madder, coppersulfur etc.
Reseda do like hard water, give a bit of chalk into the dye.
Decoration is not included in the delivery.

Goldenrod for yellow dyes.
Goldenrod dye all shades of yellow, from light to warm shades.
Note: The european Goldenrod is the right one for plantdye, the american one does not have the same qualities for dyeing.

Safflower is a very old dyers plant, the so called dyers thistle.
In medieval times people used it to fake saffron dye. It give wonderfull yellow, golden up to purpelish red colors.
See the detail page

For a dye with madder (krapp) we recommend to use the same amount wheat bran.
Example: 1kg madder (krapp) = 1kg wheat bran.
It gives deeper colors.
Decoration is not included in the delivery.
EUR/kg 6,80

Sodium dithionite, known as Hydrosulfite, (Na2S2O4) is used to reduce the oxygen in the vat.
Indigo is a well known vat dye.
You also can resuscitate your dye if there is still enough indigo in the pott.

An Alumina Mordant for plantdyeing of wool and silk.
Also to use for plantfibres, the dye will not be strong as on proteinfibres.
Soft for the fibre because it does not need to be heated anymore and the fibres do not began to felt.

100g are good for about 2,5kg fibres, yarn or fabric.

You will not need heat to prepare your yarn or fabric for dyeing. The mordant could be used until it is worn out.
Detailed instructions are within the delievery.

Especially Reseda (dyers weld) likes hard water for a shining color, also with madder root one can change by the water hardness the color lightly.
Here it helps, to add chalk to make the water hard.
As a tip: We always take on 200 ls of water 2 kgs of chalk.

Also known as Limestone; calcite; aragonite; chalk; marble; pearl; oyster.

Copper sulfate, also known as cupric sulfate, or copper sulphate - CuSO4
It is used as a mordant or aftertreatment.
It gives the dyed a very nice copper tone, which one does not reach by dyeing in the copper pot alone.